Ghazipur

Ghazipur is a city in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India. Ghazipur city is the administrative headquarters of the Ghazipur district, one of the four districts that form the Varanasi division of Uttar Pradesh. The city of Ghazipur additionally comprises one of the five unmistakable tehsils, or subdivisions, of the Ghazipur locale. Ghazipur is notable for its opium industrial facility, set up by the British East India Company in 1820 and still the greatest lawful opium manufacturing plant on the planet, creating the medication for the worldwide pharmaceutical industry.

Ghazipur lies near the Uttar Pradesh-Bihar outskirt, around 80 km 50 mi east of Varanasi and 50 km 31 mi from Buxar, the section point to Bihar state. Ghazipur is well known for its Gahmar town which is said to be the biggest town of Asia and wherein each family unit has one individual either in Army or is an Ex-serviceman. According to the verbal and society history. Ghazipur was secured with thick woodland amid the Vedic time and it was a place for ashrams of holy people amid that period. The place is identified with the Ramayana time frame. Maharshi Jamadagni, the dad of Maharshi Parashurama, is said to have dwelled here.